OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his... Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 5681849Full view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honor'd, self-secure Didst walk on Earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honor' d, self-secure Didst walk on Earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 pages
...loftiest hill v Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea> Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at. — Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 290 pages
...the loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at.—Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 290 pages
...the loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school' d, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at. — Better... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 pages
...the loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality; w And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure,... | |
| William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 418 pages
...but the border, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, whose head did stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd,...self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at.—Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1879 - 392 pages
...the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. — Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness... | |
| David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, CoUrt&ge. Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at. — Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness... | |
| David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...stars uncrowns his majesty, i'Mitln.i Coin itigr. PAGE Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea. Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares...Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at. — Better so I All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness... | |
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